Volkswagen in the Amazon: The Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil: Global and International History
Autor Antoine Ackeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 sep 2017
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781316647776
ISBN-10: 1316647773
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 8 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Global and International History
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1316647773
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 8 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Global and International History
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Cuprins
1. Setting the stage: the Amazon as a horizon; 2. The making of a model ranch (1973–1976); 3. Development in the age of scarcity (1976–1983); 4. Out-of-date modernity: forced labor at Cristalino (1983–1986); 5. Cristalino's unhappy ending.
Recenzii
'Acker tells a fascinating story about the rise and fall of Cristalino, Volkswagen's cattle ranch in the Brazilian jungle. He masterfully demonstrates how changing political pressures, cultural misconceptions, a questionable social agenda, and environmental ignorance resulted in the failure of this project. This is a highly topical book, and international environmental history at its very best.' Christof Mauch, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
'Acker's book opens new avenues for the historical understanding of the 'decades of destruction' in the Amazon Rainforest. The unusual entry of a company such as Volkswagen into that complex frontier of deforestation and ranching reveals in a concrete way all the arrogance, irresponsibility and ignorance of the local biocultural context that marked the whole process.' José-Augusto Pádua, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
'Moving seamlessly between the perspectives of local workers, trade unionists and priests, Brazilian national politicians, German managers, and Third World solidarity activists, Antoine Acker provides a powerful analysis of VW's cattle ranch in Brazil and the modern exploitation of the Amazon. Original, insightful, and a fascinating contribution to global history.' Kiran Klaus Patel, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands
'At last, readers have a fine-tuned historical monograph focused on the Brazilian Amazon during the military era, one that links the region's economic development and environmentalist resonance to the political economy of capitalist globalization … Our understanding of the Amazon's recent history, nevertheless, is immeasurably enriched by Acker's study.' Seth Garfield, H-LatAm
'In articulating new conceptual lines that make the work so rich and original, Volkswagen in the Amazon fits well into a new wave of recent studies (including my own) that demonstrate how the very notion of development, far from being a clear and constant signifier, is rather a polysemic conduit for different and competing meanings among different social actors situated in concrete historical junctures.' Rafael R. Ioris, The American Historical Review
'Acker's book opens new avenues for the historical understanding of the 'decades of destruction' in the Amazon Rainforest. The unusual entry of a company such as Volkswagen into that complex frontier of deforestation and ranching reveals in a concrete way all the arrogance, irresponsibility and ignorance of the local biocultural context that marked the whole process.' José-Augusto Pádua, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
'Moving seamlessly between the perspectives of local workers, trade unionists and priests, Brazilian national politicians, German managers, and Third World solidarity activists, Antoine Acker provides a powerful analysis of VW's cattle ranch in Brazil and the modern exploitation of the Amazon. Original, insightful, and a fascinating contribution to global history.' Kiran Klaus Patel, Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands
'At last, readers have a fine-tuned historical monograph focused on the Brazilian Amazon during the military era, one that links the region's economic development and environmentalist resonance to the political economy of capitalist globalization … Our understanding of the Amazon's recent history, nevertheless, is immeasurably enriched by Acker's study.' Seth Garfield, H-LatAm
'In articulating new conceptual lines that make the work so rich and original, Volkswagen in the Amazon fits well into a new wave of recent studies (including my own) that demonstrate how the very notion of development, far from being a clear and constant signifier, is rather a polysemic conduit for different and competing meanings among different social actors situated in concrete historical junctures.' Rafael R. Ioris, The American Historical Review
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Descriere
The first history of the German multinational's resounding failure in its global development project of a cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon.